Dutch firebrand populist Geert Wilders has released his anti-Muslim film, despite threats of protests in Arab states. In scenes abruptly cut together, he calls for a stop to “Islamization” in Europe. Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders released his long-anticipated anti-Koran film “Fitna,” the Arabic word for “ordeal,” on the Internet. The controversial 15-minute film, which stigmatizes the Koran, was made available for download Thursday afternoon on the Web site Liveleak in versions in Dutch and English. The video shows attacks conducted by radical Islamists and images of murdered Dutch director Theo van Gogh next to passages from the Koran. It also includes recordings of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks made shortly before their death as well as radical Muslim preachers calling for the beheading of Jews. A young girl is shown describing Jews as pigs and apes. So too are the bodies of terrorist victims and scenes of hostage decapitations in Iraq. “Fitna” also shows one of the controversial Muhammad caricatures printed two years ago by Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper. The cartoon shows the prophet Muhammad with a ticking time bomb in his turban. At the start of the film, a timer next to the bomb shows 15 minutes until detonation — and in the end, zero.
